It's in the P-I

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Thomas Shapley acknowledges in today's column that the Nethercutt for Senate campaign ad was correct to ridicule Patty Murray's "Osama builds day care facilities" statement:

The attributions of day care-building benevolence to bin Laden were apparently off the mark. Besides, it's more likely that lots of folks love bin Laden because he expresses hatred for America. And to suggest that the United States has not spent billions of dollars around the world on aid and development in poor countries bounces right off the goofy chart.

Yes, our incumbent senator really is an ignorant fool. But what does the P-I, which already endorsed Murray's re-election, do? They defend Patty Murray and liken Nethercutt to a Nazi:

And Murray is right; Nethercutt's running a sleazy, fear-mongering ad that exploits shamelessly in the finest traditions of Karl Rove and Joseph Goebbels.

Shapley got the Goebbels analogy ass-backwards. Goebbels was known for both fabricating outrageous lies and also accusing others of lying when they were actually telling the truth. Nethercutt, on the other hand, only told the truth by broadcasting Patty Murray's own idiotic words in their proper context. But Patty Murray not only refused to retract her discredited remarks in the Nethercutt ad, but also accused Nethercutt of lying.

It wasn't my idea to bring the Nazis into this controversy, but Murray is the only one here who is both telling lies and accusing others of lying, Goebbels-style

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 03, 2004 10:26 PM | Email This